Hundreds of underground rebels are massacred in an effort to cleanse society for the new order.

As the production grew and took shape, securing locations became a lot easier. Tomaric recalls, "It got to the point where it was a piece of cake. I'd walk into a place and say, 'I want to shoot here.' They'd say 'no'. Then I'd say, 'Well, NASA let us do it and the Perry Nuclear Power Plant.' Of course they'd let us shoot. In the thick of production, we never heard no."

Jeff St. Clair, who plays the movie's lead villain, fondly recalls an unlikely location. "I shot my wife at Crooked River Brewing Company. My movie wife," St. Clair specifies. "Then we sat at the bar, drank some really nice beer and talked to the brewmaster. Jason is very good at picking locations. The brewery was sterile and there were these big shiny beer tanks so it really did look like it could be some kind of cloning lab."

“I’ll tell you what... I am speechless!” —Wayne Dawson, WJW Fox8 morning show host

Sometimes shooting conditions were less than pleasant. "We always seemed to be filming in the dead of winter or the middle of summer," Bill Caco, the movie's lead, humorously recalls. "We'd either be sweating or freezing or underground somewhere downtown." Unanimously, everyone involved agrees that the worst day shooting was under a popcorn shop in Chagrin Falls. "It looked like someplace Anne Frank would have hid from the Germans," McDougall recalls ruefully. "It was the most horrible experience of the film. We had to go down there and clean out all the garbage and filth. We had to bleach the entire place and put down mulch on the floor because it was so nasty. We had stifling weather and everything had to be lowered through a little trap door in the back of the popcorn shop and carried down three flights of rickety stairs. I asked Jason how he knew the room was down there. He said, 'Oh, just looking around.'"

The Elders’ hovercraft arrives at New Athens.

Every impossible hurdle that presented itself during the filming of One became a challenge to Tomaric. The first day of shooting was to be a massive ballroom scene. Tomaric was convinced that the Cleveland Courthouse was the only acceptable location. But renting out the courthouse for filming comes with an enormous price tag. Jason was undeterred. "I started a campaign. I wrote letters and made pitches. I begged and pleaded. I tried everything to get them to give it to us for free. And eventually, they let us have it for eight hours."

To lend authenticity to filming an extravagant party, Tomaric needed catering. So, he picked up the phonebook and started with A. "It wasn't until I reached W that I found a caterer who was willing to sponsor the film for free. Washington Place Party Center agreed to provide the linens, tables, food, wine, cheeses, shrimp and caviar. The whole nine yards; even an ice sculpture."

With the location finally secure and lavish props provided, Tomaric turned his energies toward extras. "I started going around to high schools. There was this one high school, which I won't mention because I am still mad at them, but they committed their entire drama department and band. We got American Commodore to donate tuxedos and the ladies already had evening gowns. Transportation was arranged and we had parents sign contracts. Everything was all set with three-hundred extras."

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